Example sentences of "and [adj] [was/were] to be " in BNC.

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1 The only game in town was mass circulation , and that was to be achieved by NoS becoming an aggressively popular tabloid .
2 A year later he joined the Italian MV team and that was to be the start of five glorious years for Surrey-born Surtees .
3 When the CNAA took over the DMS there were nationally some 6600 students enrolled on courses , and that was to be the order of magnitude of enrolments through the late 1970s and 1980s .
4 Route 4 — West Croydon — Penge was to be abandoned and competing bus services 12 and 75 were to be strengthened .
5 The latter had been officially withdrawn two days before , and this was to be its final working .
6 And this was to be poor Mary 's destiny .
7 But they did not and this was to be their downfall .
8 The establishment and maintenance of peace was the primary aim of idealists , and this was to be achieved through the spread of liberal democracy and through international law , administered by a newly created international organization , the League of Nations .
9 And this was to be the case with a lot of actuality pictures of the time .
10 The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) .
11 In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades .
12 The factory which opened in 1986 at Washington , Tyne and Wear was capable of assembling 24,000 cars only and these were to be constructed from ‘ kits ’ imported from Japan .
13 Realism had flourished with Defoe , Richardson , Fielding and Smollett , and these were to be the presiding deities of the new British novel .
14 Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon .
15 Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance .
16 Of the remaining seats , 152 would be elected on a proportional basis from county and metropolitan lists , and 58 were to be indirectly elected from national " compensation " lists nominated by the parties .
17 Stages I and II were to be directed to the improvement of tribunals by the strengthening of their personnel , and in particular by appointing lawyer chairmen , with a senior chairman appointed for each region .
18 Promises were given at Sunningdale in 1973 that articles 2 and 3 were to be withdrawn and were repeated before Hillsborough in 1985 .
19 Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again .
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